I was trying to decide how best to go about uploading photos from the Independence Series. I briefly considered just updating the initial draft posts with revisions but felt that betrayed the spirit of the daily notations. The initial drafts reflect the contemporaneous reactions to the events of the day and should remain. Sadly, the […]
I just flew in and boy are my legs tired. No, wait. That’s not quite right. Not only are my legs tired, every fiber of my being is tired. I suppose that’s to be expected post-multi-day-marathoning. It was a great trip, made all the better thanks to my brother, Steve. There were a few early […]
Today was only a two loop course. Of course, that made each loop 13.1 miles but still… There’s a noticeable difference between the multi-day series loops and this two loop race. As is conmon at city races with multiple loops, the second loop becomes sparsely run as half marathoners finish their loop, and it gets […]
Rain, rain. Go away! Come again some other day! Somebody must have sung this early this AM, as the forecasted morning of showers turned out to be a swing and a miss – it was overcast, a little dreary and a chilly 49 degrees, but the rain never came. Indeed, late in my loop de […]
It was one soggy day at the Daniel Boone Homestead. But I survived. Just under four hours. Full details to come later but in the meantime just a quick shout out thanks to all the ” behind the scenes” Mainly Marathon team. Their smiles and words of encouragement were the only rays of sunshine during […]
Due to spotty, shoddy, persnickety, pfrustrating (the P is pronounced) internet access, the daily write ups will be short and sweet and a full write up will be posted after the fact once I’m in a First World place. Short, short version is that Day 2 was an exceedingly early start due to a later […]
This was a post I put up on Facebook this afternoon after finishing the first day with Mainly Marathons’ Independence Series. It was great to be back running with the Mainly Marathon family today in Bear, DE. I once thought of these multi-day events like a summer camp caravan; today made me think it’s really […]
Bear, Delaware. That’s where I’m headed tomorrow morning around 4:15 AM. It’s about an hour drive and I need to check-in for my bib and maybe partake of a few of the Mainly Marathon PB&J sandwiches before the race. There’s something about somebody else making a PB&J for you that makes it particularly tasty. It’s […]
Steve and I went down into the city to meet John Garvey. He took us to this place because of the name (and the food wasn’t half bad either!): What can I say? I’m THAT guy, I guess. I’m that guy who runs marathons. I am Run Kevin Run Dot Com. There’s worse things to […]
Enter mariners, wet. It’s one of the greatest stage directions ever written. It is of course William Shakespeare and appears in “The Tempest.” An English teacher pointed it out to the class somewhere in my educational past and it has always stuck with me. I thought a great deal about that stage direction during today’s […]